To coincide with the launch of London Fashion Week 2012, Freesat are pleased to announce that International TV network, Fashion One, is now available on Freesat Channel 407.

Broadcasting the latest in fashion, entertainment and lifestyle news, Fashion One also showcases profiles of A-list celebrities, luxury brands, holiday destinations and covers red carpet events. Together with the latest in fashion trends, it provides a televised “Who’s Who” of photographers, models and designers from across the international fashion industry.

The exclusive partnership with Freesat marks the debut of the ONE channel onto British television.

The channel will open with a new six episode reality series; “Fashion Correspondent Search: London”. This show will cover London Fashion Week with the aim of finding an on-the-ground fashionista to host fashion and lifestyle events in London.

About Fashion One

From the world’s premier international Fashion and Entertainment channel, audiences can expect an array of world-class programming, ranging from the latest trends and insights in the fashion industry, to exotic lifestyles and fashion destinations, plus a healthy dose of the latest news from Hollywood.

Richard Crichton said: How do you know have you actually watched it or are you just having a moan as a matter of policy. People in the UK must be the biggest bunch of moaners amd naysayers in the world.

Nope, not seen it, but I don’t need to as I’ve read the description and I know the pretentious dribble it’s going to offer doesn’t interest me in the slightest.

Blimey, some people are never satisfied. Often I will dip in to the more obscure channels and find that thy can be refreshing. I include here the Food channels, Vintage TV, HKD, CNN and France TV (has the most attractive presenters!!).
The more exclusive channels will surely encourage others?

Fashion One is a good example of a channel that could of been exclusively HD. By not showing in SD the broadcaster would have had lower expenses and it would encourage the sale of HD boxes. SD should be a thing of the pass by now.

If it is an exclusive why does Fashion One’s home page here http://www.fashionone.com/United-Kingdom have a notice saying “Can’t get Fashion One in the United Kingdom – call Sky or Virgin Media? Seems unlikely it is an exclusive to me = more misleading info from freesat

davemurgatroyd said:
If it is an exclusive why does Fashion One’s home page here http://www.fashionone.com/United-Kingdom have a notice saying “Can’t get Fashion One in the United Kingdom – call Sky or Virgin Media? Seems unlikely it is an exclusive to me = more misleading info from freesat

I expect they are trying to drum up business but they can’t go on Sky as a SD channel as they are not accepting any more SD channels on their EPG. Fashion One is not on Virgins list of channels.

davemurgatroyd said:
If it is an exclusive why does Fashion One’s home page here http://www.fashionone.com/United-Kingdom have a notice saying “Can’t get Fashion One in the United Kingdom – call Sky or Virgin Media? Seems unlikely it is an exclusive to me = more misleading info from freesat

Sounds like someone marketing-wise has got their knickers in a twist not knowing the platform they are on. Maybe someone should drop them a line with a gentle reminder! I think they are foreign owned so their less clued marketing team probably think ‘Sky’ are the only DSAT operator in the UK!

ChrisK said:
Richard @ 18
If you can not see the differents that HD makes then you don’t have a good telly.

I see the difference with HD sure but a good telly will upscale SD so that the difference is minimal with good material.This is especially true with some BBC so called HD programmes . Obviously this does not apply to the sub prime channels that do not even broadcast full SD resolution in the first place. The present HD system isn’t really much better than Pal plus on a 36″ Sony Trinitron We need SuperHiVision not the comparatively low res HD we have at present.

Fashion One reminds me of the old Fashion TV channel on Sky which had some interesting shows! The making of the Pirelli calender springs to mind although they used to get away with pretty much topless women at all times of the day under the banner of fashion and art

swjoduk said:
Fashion One reminds me of the old Fashion TV channel on Sky which had some interesting shows! The making of the Pirelli calender springs to mind although they used to get away with pretty much topless women at all times of the day under the banner of fashion and art

I think its basically that channel reborn, the programme lengths 15/30 minutes and titles (like Tendencies) are pretty much as a remember from FTV.

More pressing though is why its currently being shown in a weird 2:35:1 “stretchy vision”.

Fashion One (ch 407) joined the Freesat line-up on 12 Sept 2012 and appears to have had a one year contract for inclusion in the Freesat channel guide. It may now, I believe, have gone over to Pay-TV on $ky, but appears to have completely left the Astra Satellite at 28E?
Sad as it may seem, I for one will miss it – and hope that Freesat will replace it with other bigger and better fashion (HD) channels?
Its annoying that Freesat always announce “new channels” on their information service (ch 999) “freesat news” but never seem to announce up-date news of lost channels – this news only seems to appear on joinfreesat.co.uk!